learned

adj

1. Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.

   “the learned Merlin, well could tell, / Vnder what coast of heauen the man did dwell […]”

   “My learned Brother Cresswell directed the jury to make the calculation […]”

   “The book opens with the Time Traveler dining with learned peers in late 1800s England, where he is trying to convince them that he has invented a time machine.”

   “HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW used to be both the best-known poet in the English-speaking world and the most beloved, adored by the learned and the lowly ...”

2. (formal)A courteous description used in various ways to refer to lawyers or judges.
3. Scholarly, exhibiting scholarship.

   “But our limits will not permit us to discuss the many important and curious questions respecting the science of government, to which this learned work invites attention.”

4. Derived from experience; acquired by learning.

   “Everyday behavior is an overlay of learned behavior over instinct.”

verb

1. (Canada, English, New-Zealand, US, dialectal, form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of learn

name

1. A surname.